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\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Supporters of a ballot initiative campaign that would legalize marijuana for medical purposes say they have gathered enough signatures to put the issue to a statewide vote. <\/p>\n Previously…<\/p>\n BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Supporters of a ballot initiative campaign that would legalize marijuana for medical purposes say they have gathered enough signatures to put the issue to a statewide vote.<\/p>\n The Bismarck Tribune reports that supporters of the so-called North Dakota Compassionate Care Act intend to submit the signatures on Monday to Secretary of State Al Jaeger\u2019s office.<\/p>\n The initiative will need signatures from about 13,500 voters to qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n With voters\u2019 approval, the initiative would make it legal for North Dakota residents to possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana for medical purposes. It says those who qualify could obtain the drug from a state-licensed dispensary or grow a limited supply for personal use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Supporters of a ballot initiative campaign that would legalize marijuana for medical purposes say they have gathered enough signatures to put the issue to a statewide vote. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Supporters of the so-called North Dakota Compassionate Care Act planned to submit signatures on Monday to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104016,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103955\/revisions\/104016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Supporters of the so-called North Dakota Compassionate Care Act planned to submit signatures on Monday to the Secretary of State’s office.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The initiative will need signatures from about 13,500 qualified voters to be placed on the Nov. 8 ballot.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With voters’ approval, the initiative would make it legal for North Dakota residents to possess up to 3 ounces of marijuana for medical purposes.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The petition is separate from an effort to make it legal to grow, possess, use and distribute marijuana for people 21 and older. Supporters of that campaign say they did not obtain the required number of signatures by Monday’s deadline.<\/strong><\/p>\n